by Lucille Freeman | Jun 10, 2024 | Blog
My world took a nosedive on September 15, 2001, when my dad died. Nothing can prepare you for the grief. I was a daddy’s girl; I look like him and had a mole on my right hand in the same place he had one. Nothing can prepare you for the grief. Psychologist and...
by Lucille Freeman | May 6, 2024 | Blog, Books
Happy Mother’s Day, All. If you’re a mother, grandmother, daughter, or adoptive mom, in a few days, it will be time to honor you. But honoring mothers isn’t designated to a certain day, but something to do on an ongoing basis with a phone call, a small gift, an act of...
by Lucille Freeman | Sep 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
I remember watching the movie Australia. One thing that stood out was that when someone died you were forbidden to say their name. Two months ago, my sister died, and I’ve had to consider that life isn’t permanent. I’ve learned the ways in which people grieve. I am a...
by Lucille Freeman | Aug 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Lucille U. Freeman When I heard Anthony Brown and Group Therapy’s song Worth, I was sitting at my 57 year-old sister’s funeral, who had lost her battle to breast cancer. The grief inside me turned into muffled sobs, as I listened to the music and the...
by Lucille Freeman | Jul 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Lucille U. Freeman Footprints in the sand…why were there only one set of footprints in some of the roughest times of my life. That’s when I carried you. When my Mom died, when my sister died… I needed to be carried. I’m sure there were only one set of footprints. I...